Archive for May, 2013

Admiral PR, the only North East agency to be a member of the PRCA, has achieved the Communications Management Standard – the gold standard of service for the PR industry. The internationally recognised Communications Management Standard (CMS) is the industry’s quality certification system for public relations firms. The Standard is an assurance to clients that […]

Britain’s Got Talent: love it or hate it, the programme raises some serious issues about children being subjected to the intense pressure of live television. Eighty-five year old Bruce Forsyth, no stranger to the age debate himself, today described the ‘emotional damage’ to performers as young as ten, commenting on a girl who had broken […]

By Giacomo Gobbin Manchester University has launched a Recruitment Service for Business to help employers realise the potential of the city’s recent graduates. The project aims to cater to SMEs increasing demand for young talent in Greater Manchester, marked by a shrinking of supply over the last few years because of a regional “brain drain” as graduates […]

By Giacomo Gobbin Sir Mervyn King, the outgoing governor of the Bank of England, has a seriously optimistic perspective for Greater Manchester’s economy in the forthcoming years due to its vibrant creative industries. The economist visited The Point at Lancashire County Cricket Club this week, and commended the region for consistently adapting to the changes […]

By Giacomo Gobbin The Guardian has teamed-up with Apadmi, a Manchester-based mobile software developer to make a significant step forward in changing the way we think about journalism. Collaborating closely with the newspaper, Apadmi launched the app Guardian Witness as a platform to allow anyone to submit their own journalistic content using nothing but a […]

Poor Laura Fernee revealed a painful truth on national daytime television yesterday: she is just too beautiful to work. The thirty-three year old scientist says that her slim figure and pretty face have made the world of employment intolerable. Men cannot treat her as anything other than an object of desire and female colleagues hate […]